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The Google organizers have taken to calling themselves the “entitled vocal majority,” after one employee publicly referred to them as the “entitled vocal minori
by rgoulter 7y ago
The Google organizers have taken to calling themselves the “entitled vocal majority,” after one employee publicly referred to them as the “entitled vocal minority.”
I feel like this is a small example of where my views of these employees disagrees with the author's. (I'm fine with employees having strong opinions on ethical issues, but this kindof puff quote doesn't lend them respect).
I dunno if the author thinks they're being impartial. Can't complain if they know (and the reader knows) where their preference lies.
- pjc50 7y agoThere's a long history of naming yourself after the negative term your enemies use for you in order to neutralise it. Also "entitled vocal minority" works nicely as a parody of "moral majority".
- mcguire 7y agoThe Bolsheviks were actually a minority.
- paleotrope 7y agoThat statement by itself requires knowledge that bolshevik means something like "majority" in russian.
- wbl 7y agoNo they were the majority in 1917. Earlier they had been the minority, but post Kornilov they were a majority at the time of the storming of the winter palace.
- bijant 7y agoThe Bolsheviks were a majority within the RSDLP in 1903. The extent of their support in 1917 within the wider population is highly debatable but their thought-leadership led to sufficient mindshare to (belatedly) ship the October revolution and scale their product to numerous global markets from the Americas to China within the 20th century. Adoption is currently stagnating while the product is being refactored. The Bolsheviks, was a faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split from the Menshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) at its Second Party Congress in 1903. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks
- FabHK 7y agoYou should write a whole history book in terms we can understand.
- pjc50 7y agoI was referring to Falwell's lot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority ; I never knew that "Bolshevik" came from the Russian for "majority"! Every day this website teaches something.
- philwelch 7y agoIf you suddenly and violently seize power and repress your opposition, you don't stay a "minority" for long! You take an opinion poll and people say, "oh yeah, I'm totally with the Bolsheviks...please don't send the Cheka after my family...."
- Apocryphon 7y agoI think it’s a twist on the silent majority.
- googthrow2019 7y agoThe author's bias is obvious. She's not even trying to create an impression of objectivity. The activists and this article's author are congratulating each other all over Twitter. Besides, the article contains nuggets like this: > Meanwhile, there’s not a company in the sector that isn’t grappling at some level with the ways bro-gramming culture has made tech a toxic space for women and employees of color. Anyone who uncritically invokes this frame is waging culture war, not describing it. This article is activist propaganda masquerading as neutral reporting.
- malvosenior 7y agoYep, it's impossible to take journalism seriously when they use "bro-gramming" in an article. The journalists obviously have an axe to grind.
- pjc50 7y agoWhat's your objectivity in this, throwaway account?
- malvosenior 7y agoWhy would an anonymous commenter need to be objective? There's no comparison to a journalist. You've commented on this thread more than anyone and no one is questioning your right to state your opinion.
- eli_gottlieb 7y ago>The author's bias is obvious. She's not even trying to create an impression of objectivity. The activists and this article's author are congratulating each other all over Twitter. The irony is that actually printing someone taking the appellation "entitled vocal majority" makes them look bad, not the company. Disclaimer: I do not work for Google, but I'm pre-inclined to favor the employees doing more or less whatever they want, but holy hell, what a way for an activist minority to alienate itself from the base you need to form a union or cooperative.